Hot Pockets' scary ingredient list, illustrated

An illustrated poster of Hot Pockets ingredients could turn you off these microwavable products for good.

Do partially hydrogenated soybean oil and corn syrup solids make you drool — especially when packed together with imitation mozzarella cheese and artificial butter flavor — and spiked with distilled monoglycerides and L-Cysteine hydrochloride? You've been eating all that — if you've been nibbling Hot Pockets.

These overpackaged and overprocessed edible food-like products are already avoided by many health-conscious foodies. But even the average factory-farmed cheeseburger-eating Joe might think twice about buying Hot Pockets if the product’s ingredient list was on the front of its packaging.

According to Boing Boing, this poster’s the first in a series — so follow Justin’s blog for more well-illustrated poster-sized motivations to eat better. How much would America’s diet change if ingredient lists of popular processed products had to be put on the front of the packaging — instead of squished on the back in small print?